Choose a Custom Size for Your Videos:

Keep in mind that YouTube's player is in 16x9 wide-screen format. If you want to change the dimensions, do so using a 16:9 aspect ratio and add 25px in height for the player controls. For example, lets say that you needed the video to be 320px wide:

--> 320(9)=Height(16) and then add 25px

--> Height=180 + 25 = 205px

Customize the URLS:

Turn off Title & Ratings

&showinfo=0

Turn off Search

&showsearch=0

Turn on Related Videos

&rel=1

Turn off Annotations

&iv_load_policy=3

Force Closed Captions

&cc_load_policy=1

Turn on AutoPlay (not recommended)

&autoplay=1

Loop Playback

&loop=1

Remove Full Screen Option(not sure why you'd want to)

&fs=0

Customize Video Quality after Embedding:

Youtube already allows you to customize the embed code and allows the videos to play in HD, but in case you were wondering what the codes were for this and/or how to force play back of high-quality files (not HD);

Show in High-Definition 720p &hd=1 Show in High-Quality &ap=%2526fmt%3D18

nice. just as an aside, does anyone else put videos on their homepage as embeds in a text box, and use autoplay?
I sell promo spots on my site and am considering offering autoplay - thing is, it's quite annoying.
any advice or experience to share?
thanks
sp

sweetpotato personally i have always found that unless your network is a video sharing network and it is entirely necessary, i would leave all videos off of the homepage. ive even gone so far as to make a screenshot of a video with play button then link it to an internal video because it is the slowest loader on a home page..thats just my 2 cents